ARDC Research Link Australia

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $810,696.00
Summary: This research aims to develop regulatory approaches to obesity prevention and the reduction of socio-economic inequalities in obesity prevalence. Laws related to the provision, marketing, and labelling of food, urban planning, transportation, taxes and subsidies and so on will be comprehensively analysed and prioritised, and options proposed for legislative reform. The evidence-base and the implementation pathways will be developed contemporaneously and will be widely promoted to governments. A ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $142,394.00
Summary: Pandemic influenza could cause significant mortality in populations of Australia and the south-east Asian region. Currently, avian influenza A (H5N1) is a concern to public health agencies because of its extreme pathogenicity. At present this strain is not transmitted readily between humans. A number of drugs are available to treat influenza infection in humans and research has shown these to be effective in preventing significant mortality in the setting of seasonal influenza epidemics (specifi ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $149,044.00
Summary: The aim of the multi-site partnership is to build on foundational work initiated by NH and MRC to establish a model for end-of-life care in adult Haematology and palliative care. Preliminary work indicates this diagnostic category does NOT presently receive palliative care. Consumer research indicates that end-of-life care in haematology is associated with the distress of escalating technology, post-traumatic stress and spiritual pain. This study seeks to address this situation by building on th ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $100,000.00
Summary: A study of the impact on patients and their families of the decision to stop kidney machine dialysis, and the transition to terminal care, either in an in-patient hospice-palliative care unit or domicillary service. The study will employ a combination of quantitative demographic and qualitative social science methodologies. There will be a special focus on the decision-making process, given that a dialysis cessation decision will usually lead to death within a few weeks.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $249,854.00
Summary: Communication appearing in the Australian media regarding a potential bird flu epidemic can serve to accurately and effectively inform the public OR misinform and contribute to panic and undesirable behavioural responses. The Australian Government has time to develop communication strategies and specific messages that can effectively convey desired information at different stages of the anticipated pandemic. This research team proposes to develop communication strategies (including specific mess ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $147,000.00
Summary: Influenza is a highly contagious disease that is transmitted via infective secretions containing the virus. An infected person produces tiny droplets of these secretions when coughing, sneezing, and talking, and the droplets are disseminated into the air where they are subsequently inhaled by others. A common way of preventing such transmission is to wear a mask to prevent droplet inhalation. While such masks may greatly reduce exposure, they do not eliminate it, as some viruses can pass around ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $498,869.00
Summary: Most mental health problems begin in childhood and adolescence. Of these, oppositional-defiant and conduct problems in childhood are the most common precursor of all types of adult mental health problems. These children are the most common referral to child mental health clinics but little is known about which of these children will go in which direction i.e., good health, chronic antisocial behaviour, depression and anxiety, substance abuse, the psychoses. Progress in more accurately defining s ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $1,152,711.00
Summary: Childhood obesity is an escalating public health problem both internationally and within Australia. Rates of childhood obesity in Australia are at one of the highest amongst developed nations. 25% of Australian children are currently overweight or obese. Obesity is a strong risk factor for chronic disease. In children, obesity is of concern because it is highly likely to persist and, during childhood, contributes to serious physical and mental health problems. A quarter of Australian children ar ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $543,868.00
Summary: The hepatitis C virus (HCV) continues to spread among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Australia at a very high rate, despite success in preventing the spread of HIV in the same groups; the complete reasons for this remain unclear. There is an urgent need for the HCV epidemic among IDUs to be contained. To do so, we must better understand the ways in which it is spreading among IDUs. Much is known about risk behaviours of individual IDUs and how they contribute to HCV transmission; much less is kn ....
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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $1,771,151.00
Summary: This project aims to determine the best ways to improve the Social Emotional Well Being (SEWB) of the Aboriginal people of Broken Hill, Menindee and Wilcannia. This project will develop a culturally appropriate and evidenced based intervention to break the cycle of ongoing grief, mental illness, alcohol and other drugs and violence. The project will proceed in a number of interrelated phases including extensive community consultations and a baseline survey. The project will then implement and ev ....
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